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MISS LAYTON MANAGES MATTERS. 157<br />

wife <strong>of</strong> Audley Dale till he had cleared<br />

himself from the imputations resting on<br />

him. But a crime like this, with the<br />

frenzied passion or the low brutal cunning<br />

which must have inspired it, was one <strong>of</strong><br />

which she could as soon have credited <strong>her</strong>self<br />

as Audley, and with a very natural revul-<br />

sion, she began to take <strong>her</strong>self to task for<br />

having repelled him as she had done, and<br />

for a moment appeared to entertain a belief<br />

in his guilt.<br />

" I never did think it," said Beatey.<br />

" I<br />

always knew you were too hard on the poor<br />

fellow." She did not think it polite to say<br />

that the fact <strong>of</strong> Mrs. Bushington's crediting<br />

the story was enough to make <strong>her</strong> disbelieve<br />

it, but it really was so.<br />

" And he will think I believe this /" said<br />

Milly.<br />

" If I could only write and tell him<br />

that I know it is a lie—and that— yes<br />

—<br />

I would n't mind telling him that I was too<br />

hard on him the ot<strong>her</strong> day— anything, any-

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